Really, 4 year life span and they are replaced?

God I need to work for a company like that!

  I am so tired of dealing with these RS/6000 systems that were made back in 1994, and these intel systems made back in 2002.

I wrote it to be funny and I am aware that it is Planck.

I am just as surprised as you that it is rated "insightful." I expected it to be rated Funny.

The two wave forms are entangled below the plank layer, thus being outside of standard space time you see no measurable latency.

Maybe we need to coin a phrase for this area blow the plank layer and outside space time. I say we call it subspace, seems to fit. :P

Reminds me of a Babylon 5 quote

" There are things in the universe billions of years older than either of our races. They are vast, timeless. And if they are aware of us at all, it is as little more than antsand we have as much chance of communicating with them as an ant has with us. We know. We've tried. And we've learned we can either stay out from underfoot, or be stepped on."

> The only controversy is "is 97 larger than 3".

On a scale of 1 to 100 with 1 being a pure fact and 100 being a pure lie, where would you rate the global warming debate?

Yep, 3 is bigger than 97 :P

The old saying is that “figures will not lie,” but a new saying is “liars will figure.” It is our duty, as practical statisticians, to prevent the liar from figuring; in other words, to prevent him from perverting the truth, in the interest of some theory he wishes to establish. -- Carroll D. Wright 1889

More proof that this debate is political and not scientific.

Passing a law that says it is real is like voting on the sex of a chicken. No matter the outcome of the vote, only testing can provide the answer.

How about we get politics out of science and rely on the scientific method to determine if "Global Warming" is real or not.

Yep, and to that I say:

People Soft, ERP, Email, etc,etc,etc. How much is lost when they go down? Name one department that does not require an application or system to be up all the time! If the sales system is down, the sales department does not make sales!

If you think a medium sized company or larger can continue to operate in this day and age without IT. Simple let your IT group go and see how long it takes.

http://www.glassdoor.com/

Use it to screen companies before an interview. It is always fun when they ask "Do you have any questions for us?" and you pull comments from glassdoor and ask if they have corrected the issue. ;)

That is every consulting firm I have ever worked for! Not once has any of them had bench time or training, it is just hire people for the contract and let them go when it is over.

What you are suggesting is that a generalist will be kept while a specialist is disposable.

Simple question, when the MBA/management person is looking at the spread sheet with all the numbers on it trying to decide which people should be laid off, which filed is the one that indicates your skill set?

LOL, the last company I worked for Laid off the IT staff in a "Re-org" They had just announced how they had made 3 Billion euros in the last year and the President of the company took a multimillion Dollar bonus! However, no raises as there was "no budget" for it, then they laid off all the IT staff, to cut costs. Turns out they out sourced it to a firm in India that thoroughly failed at managing the systems.

9 months later, they run ad's looking for IT people. They were having trouble finding people because they are offering 40% less than market. So they decide to call the people they laid off and offer to bring them back. We have all turned them down.

With a whopping 1.2 star approval rating on www.glassdoor.com they will have trouble finding anyone to work for them!

P@ssw0rd! did not make the list and half the places I have worked have used that as the password because it meets the windows complexity rules.